👉 In linguistics, "protohomo" is a term used to refer to a species that originated from the common ancestor of Homo sapiens and Hominus sapiens. This concept was introduced by Carl Linnaeus in his system of classification in the 18th century, which included several different classifications for this group of species. The Proto-Homo theory posits that humans have a common ancestry with other hominins and is based on the fact that both Homo sapiens and H
